Roman J Israel, Esq.

A nervy, compelling performance from the Oscar-winning actor dominates this unconventional morality play from the writer/director of Nightcrawler.

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"You've never seen him like this," Travers writes of "awards-caliber" Washington as a brilliant, on-the-spectrum activist attorney in legal thriller.

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These are obvious questions that you think Gilroy would easily address or avoid, but strangely doesn’t. So, excuse us as we continue to try to wrap our head around all of this. Beyond Washington’s stunning performance we’re still sort of puzzled by it all.

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Denzel Washington is a total schlub in this gripping new thriller.

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Denzel Washington delivers a performance for the ages.

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“Roman J. Israel, Esq.” worries about the right things but never makes them thrilling.

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The actor has a field day with this eccentric attorney, but the movie is more interested in his character than in telling a story.

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Denzel Washington delivers a rare bad performance in the shapeless Roman J. Israel, Esq.

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Even when the movie loses its way narratively, Washington’s in there, slugging, building a living, breathing character out of Gilroy’s knight-errant.

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Denzel Washington stars as a legal savant in director Dan Gilroy's second feature, a follow-up to 'Nightcrawler.'

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Denzel Washington is haunting as a semi-functional legal savant who might have stepped out of a '70s time machine. The movie around him intrigues and meanders.

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It offers tonal whiplash for viewers, with several potentially great ideas that don’t settle into a coherent whole.

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Denzel Washington stars as a lawyer from another era in Dan Gilroy’s florid crime drama.

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Throughout Dan Gilroy’s film, a promising character study is smothered beneath lazy genre machinations.

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“Roman J. Israel, Esq.” looks like prime Oscar bait.

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